Clinton Offers Ways to Simplify
Taxes in Reply to Rival Plans

WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration plans to announce Monday a list of proposals to simplify some of the more nettlesome complexities of the income-tax code.

The release -- a day before the annual tax-filing deadline -- was timed to convey the idea that the White House feels taxpayers' anguish as they try to cut through the red tape of the 1040 ritual. The proposal also gives the administration some concrete response to more-radical tax-reform plans floated by Republican leaders.